UNFORTUNATELY CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC
March 16 - 22
University of Oxford, Magdalen College
This annual seminar specifically focuses on issues of peacemaking and ethics in warfare in contemporary contexts, while also inviting participants to reflect on how these questions of human rights can be seen in their home communities.
Read MoreThe Oxford Consortium for Human Rights is announcing its first-ever workshop to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 20-25, 2019 in partnership with Universidade Estacio de Sa. The workshop is titled “Community, Identity, and Human Rights” and will feature scholars from Brazil, Oxford, and other experts in the field.
Read MoreOxford
July 7th-12th 2019
This workshop will focus on the questions of human movement and global ethics as a framework for discussion of humanitarian action, conflict, human rights law, and peacemaking. We will focus on recent armed conflicts and the ways these dynamics play out around us today.
Read MoreMarch 11-16th
Oxford
Directed by Dr. Johanna Luttrell and Dr. Cheyney Ryan
This annual seminar specifically focuses on issues of peacemaking and ethics in warfare in contemporary contexts, while also inviting participants to reflect on how these questions of human rights can be seen in their home communities.
Read MoreThis workshop launched an exciting new direction for the Consortium: professional development for a broad range of educators—those teaching kindergarten through university—who seek to deepen their pedagogical skills and knowledge in relation to teaching human rights.
Read MoreInstitutional Responsibility and Community Action
October 14th - October 19th
Hosted and directed by Professor Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox
As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, our OCHR group will convene in New York, New York to discuss themes of human rights at this incredibly crucial historical moment.
Our trip will include a tour of the United Nations headquarters and several seminars focused on the UN.
Presenters:
Cheyney Ryan, Director of Human Rights Programs for ELAC
Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, Executive Director of OCHR
Brian Stiltner, Co-Director Hersher Institute for Applied Ethics at Sacred Heart University
Christina Dawkins, founder of A4Abolitionist
Glenn Mitoma, Director of the Thomas Dodd Center at the University of Connecticut
Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science, CUNY
Kwami Coleman, musician
Fatema Sumar, Vice President of Global Programs at Oxfam America
Vladimir Cuk, Executive Director of International Disability Alliance
Krishna Patel, Justice Initiative Director of Grace Farms
Glaydon de Freitas Filho
Robin Galas, Director TRIO, Chabot College
Ibrahim Gassama, Professor of Law, University of Oregon
Tim Lindgren
Anat Biletzki, Professor of Philosophy, Quinnipiac University
Deen Chatterjee, Professor of Law, University of Utah
Nabeel Hamdi, Emeritus PRofessor Oxford Brooks University
June 24 - June 29 2018
Oxford, UK
Directed by Dr. Cheyney Ryan and Dr. Lyn Boyd-Judson
This summer's seminar focuses on issues of migration and refugee policy and the ways these issues intersect with national and international law.
With an optional service-learning program in Lesvos, Greece organized and directed by Dr. Lyn Boyd-Judson
June 30-July 5
March 13-17, 2018
Oxford
Directed by Dr. Johanna Luttrell and Dr. Cheyney Ryan
This seminar specifically focused on issues of peacemaking and ethics in warfare in contemporary contexts.
In addition to the presenters, the program included discussions and student presentations, bringing the week’s topics into the context of people’s experiences as individuals and as part of their communities.
March 12-17, 2017
Oxford
Directed by Dr. Johanna Luttrell and Dr. Cheyney Ryan
This seminar specifically focuses on issues of peacemaking and ethics in warfare in contemporary contexts.
Presenters:
Dr Cheyney Ryan, Program in Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict and Merton College, University of Oxford
Dr Hugo Slim, International Committee of the Red Cross
Prof Lyn Boyd-Judson, Unesco Chair and Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, University of Southern California
Prof Johanna Luttrell, University of Houston
Prof Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, Quinnipiac University
Leonardo Castilho, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Gevena, Office of High Commissioner Human Rights, United Nations (on leave).
Prof David Mwambari, United States International University Africa
Prof Cecile Fabre, All Souls College, University of Oxford
Dr Michael Robillard, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford’
Lt. Col. Bob Underwood, Philosophy Department, University of Oxford
Marlena Wright, Mt. Hood Comunity College
David Reese, Georgetown University
June 18 - June 24 2017 (Geneva)
June 24 - July 5 (Greece)
Organized and directed by Professor Lyn Boyd-Judson
This unique consortium seminar featured a week-long workshop in Geneva with lectures from leading international organizations working in the field of migration and refugee policy, then service-learning and site visits with refugee organizations in Greece.
Presentations by:
Hugo Slim, Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy Division, International Committee of the Red Cross
Cheyney Ryan, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict, Director of Human Rights Programs
Vincent Chetail, Director of the Global Migration Centre and Professor of International Law
Elizabeth Rushing, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, senior advisor on conflict
Gilles Carbonnier, Professor of Development Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva
Catherine-Lune Grayson, International Committee of the Red Cross
Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Bradford Smith, Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights, Geneva
David Mwambari, United States International University–Africa (Nairobi)
David Rodin, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict
George Fourlas, Hampshire College
Jesse Slim, Utopia 56
Anna Evans-Goldstein, University of Southern California, former head of volunteers, Elpida Home
Joel Hernandez, Elpida Home
Michelle Klein Solomon, Director of the Migration Policy and Research Department at the International Organization for Migration
October 22-30 2016
New York and Quinnipiac University, Connecticut
Human Rights and Development: Institutional Responsibility and Community Action
Hosted and directed by Professor Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox
This workshop invited a broad range of perspectives of those working within the international framework to extend and preserve Human Rights. The group toured the headquarters of the United Nations, as well as engaging with a series of advocates, scholars, UN Special Rapporteurs, and practitioners.
Read More
